"The Berlin Wall Fell 25 Years Ago" Topic
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Tango01 | 07 Nov 2014 1:26 p.m. PST |
"East Germany tore a city in half when it tried to keep its people from escaping to the West Imagine that your best friend lives a mile away. You have been pals since first grade. You do everything together: school, soccer games, sleepovers. One day, men come and put up a barbed-wire fence between your house and your buddy's. Later, they replace it with a very long, very tall concrete wall. Each slab weighs 6,000 pounds, and many of them are topped with sharp wire. When they finish, you stare at the giant wall that has split your home town in two. On your side, the wall is ugly but not too scary. On the other side, rattling tanks, soldiers with machine guns and growling dogs keep people from trying to cross the barrier…" Full article here link YouTube link YouTube link 25 Years? Wow! As life goes !! Amicalement Armand |
Legion 4 | 07 Nov 2014 3:51 p.m. PST |
Quite an event … even though it may look like some of them Russkies still ain't happy about it … Comrade Putin has an 86% popularity rating among his populus … However, many non-Russians in Eastern Europe are much better off. Even with the current Neo-Russ uprising. |
jpattern2 | 07 Nov 2014 4:25 p.m. PST |
I think one day we in the US will look back on the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11 as The Good Old Days. |
Zargon | 08 Nov 2014 2:44 p.m. PST |
"Comrade Putin has an 86% popularity rating among his populus." Hey legion! Not pulling any punches are you. Guess most Commanders in Chefs in the west could only hope for such support. Still want to game a mano a mano 'Wresalin match' between the leadership. I'd use Pulp Alley for this one (maybe Jugular? Are these any good?), my money would be on the German chancellor :+) Annnd in the Red corner…. |
Mako11 | 08 Nov 2014 7:34 p.m. PST |
Yep, 25 years later there seems to be a very deep Russian desire for the good old Soviet days. I heard on the news tonight, someone (probably Gorbachev) said there may be a new Cold War, because the West hasn't treated Russia better. |
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